In this Instructable i will show step by step instruction for how to make finger controlled robot with sound activated light system

this robot can be controlled using your four fingers of your hand(left/right) .And the robot automatically switch on/off its light when needed(when the robot is moving throw darker areas).It sounds crazy but is very simple.

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Step 2: Making the Robot: Power Supply

First we will start with the power supply circuit. The power supply it is simplest one.

Both the transmitter and receiver circuit should be power separately,

The power supply circuit consist

IC 7805 which regulates the 12v supply to 5v (use heat sink)

Two capacitors 0.1uf and 470uf

1k resistor for status led

For both circuit(sound activate light ) RF receiver i have provided a common power 12v supply

i have used 7805 IC to step down to 5v

Power the transmitter board with a 9v battery

Step 3: Making the Receiver Circuit

Using the rf module is very simple because pin description is on it

just wire the it as per the receiver circuit

If you want to know how all the stuff works read this or If your lazy or busy just skip this part

L293D L293D contains two inbuilt H-bridge driver circuits. In its common mode of operation, two DC motors can be driven simultaneously, both in forward and reverse direction. The motor operations of two motors can be controlled by input logic at pins 2 & 7 and 10 & 15. Input logic 00 or 11 will stop the corresponding motor. Logic 01 and 10 will rotate it in clockwise and anticlockwise directions, respectively.

Enables:.The enable 1 chip enables the Left part of the IC for inputs and outputs, and so does the Enable 2 does to the right part of the IC

Output : Output pin is connected to the terminal of the motor

Input: Input pin tells whether output should be given to he respective output pin or not.

Gnd: connect this pin to ground

Vs : this pin is given the voltage that we have to supply to the motors.

Vss: this pin is to power up th IC ,so connect it 5V supply

HT12D

VDD and VSS: This pin areused to provide power to the IC, Positive and Negative of the power supply respectively

DIN: This pinis the serial data input and can be connected to a RF receiver output.

A0 – A7: This are the address input . Status of these pins should match with status of address pin in HT12E (used in transmitter) to receive the data. These pins can be connected to VSS or left open

D8 – D11: This are the data output pins. Status of these pins can be VSS or VDD depending upon the received serial data through pin DIN.

VT: stand for Valid Transmission. This output pin will be HIGH when valid data is available at D8 – D11 data output pins.

OSC1 and OSC2: This pin are used to connect external resistor for internal oscillator of HT12D. OSC1 is the oscillator input pin and OSC2 is the oscillator output pin

Step 4: Making the Transmitter Circuit

Try making the transmitter circuit as small as possible because it should be mounted on gloves.place all element closer to each other to minimize the size.I have provided pcb layout and silkscreen for transmitter circuit

NOTE : THE PCB LAYOUT IS NOT A MIRRORED ONE

The transmitter circuit is contains only one IC(ht12e) just connect all wire as per the transmitter circuit You can see a red box in circuit just ignore it .I have provided image notes A,B,C,D on the transmitter circuit connect it to A,B,C,D,E respectively on the glove.How to make the glove i will discuss in next step

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Step 5: Making the Controller (Glove)

Making the glove is little bit tricky you should place all the parts at the correct place(don't use gloves which are made of conductive textiles,they will no work properly)

In the picture you can see red strips marked with A,B,C,D ,those red stripe are conductive material (i used a piece of copper clad )any conductive materials can be used . Stick or stitch the conductive material on tip of the fingers(A,B,C,D) and connect wire to A,B,C,D pins in the transmitter circuit respectively

I have used Super glue for sticking the small piece of board to the glove

For ground (-ve) i have made slight change in the wiring i had made a common ground on the palm of the hand ,connect it to the ground of the transmitter circuit

To controll the bot we need only four fingers

In the picture you can see red and black strips they are positive and negative respectively , they act like a switch

when you bend your fingers the -ve and +ve come in contact and the bot moves

NOTE: Dont use conductive glove for making this

Step 6: DIY Car Chasis

In this step i will show you how to make DIY car chasis using cardboard box

First take a rectangle cardboard box

stick black color paper (any color) on the cardboard for good looking :)

make four holes at the four corner of the box for inserting motor

insert the four motors and screw them

Step 7: Placing the Lights

For light up light we need leds ,I took a small strip of circuit board and connected 2 led in parallel .Insert small holes for placing the leds and connected the 2 pair of leds positive and negative together ,For increasing the light i used a led reflector,

In the circuit you can see a LED replace that LED and connect the positive and negative terminal of the paired leds to it

Step 8: Making the Sound Activated Light Circuit

This is a simple sound activated light without any programmingThe main components for sound activated light 555 timer,BC547, electret mic and some rsesistor and capacitir

first test circuit on a breadboard if its works well solder it on a circuit boad

Working: when a sound is produced the LED lit for some times then turn offs